She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic.

It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it....for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.

When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.